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Acronis recognizes disk 0 as disk 1

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After connecting a new external hard drive, Acronis insists on recognizing disk 0 as disk 1 and attempts to backup the external to itself.
Before changing hard drives I was able to backup without difficulty.
How do I get Acronis True Image Home 2009 to properly recognize the C: disk as disk 0 ??

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The disk number assignment is not important to your backups and you have no control over the number assigned.. You can make your choice based on the actual hard drive itself--not its number. Use its characteristics, etc for the correct selection--not the disk #.
If performing a backup or restore , choose the disk based on its other characteristics--not disk # and not drive letter.

Suggest you use Windows Disk Management and change the drive letter on the external to x or y or z. and assign a volume name to it (also your drive C if it does not have a name.) Assigning a drive letter such as x helps to avoid any change of letter caused by the insertion of a flash drive, camera, memory stick or printer, etc.

Then create a new backup task pointing the task to the specific drive letter assigned to the external disk.

Perhaps these links can help.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

And item 3, 2, 1 at the link below
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

I phrased this badly, the problem was the Acronis kept saying external in drive E was the same as drive C when it got to the final step, it was identifying both drives as "drive 1" after hitting the "Proceed" button

Thank you, changing the external HD to drive X and renaming as "Backup" solved the problem completely! Your solution was quick and simple...